Herzog's the Wild Blue Yonder is something I thoroughly enjoyed at the Melbourne International Film Festival a few years back, but haven't been able to find since. It's an insane, operatic, bewildering beast. Brad Douriff is just great.

Edited because I didn't realize it was going to post the trailers on this page. Awesome.

Come and See is a rather moving film from Belorussia, I think released in '85. This is 'part one,' as I found no trailer on YouTube. If you pair it with Battle of Algiers and you've got a really great double feature that might make you want to kill yourself.

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders requires a degree in Czech folklore to decipher, but even without that it's a weird trip into a fantasy land of vampire priests and witchcraft and getting your first period.

Taxidermia is actually fairly well known and quickly developing a cult following. Just don't watch it while you're eating, especially if you're eating meat. Spoiler: In the first five minutes a man masturbating in a broken down shed cums fire.

Werckmeister Harmonies is definitely a masterpiece. My favourite of Tarr's. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen when it was released. Didn't have the same impact on the small screen.

Something I saw the other day and loved quite unreasonably, which fits the obscure but totally fucking brilliant bill, is Celine and Julie Go Boating. French, from the 70s. Not like anything else, ever. Difficult to describe without spoilers, and is overwhelmingly best experienced without expectation, as it will be a much weirder and more wondrous ride for it. Just see it if you ever can, but maybe be aware it is over 3 hours long. Oh, and "boating" does not mean what you think it will mean. :)

Exploder: Taxidermia is really darkly funny in a way that only Eastern European films can be.

Icelandbob: Have you seen any of Piotr Szulkin's other sci-fi films? O-bi, O-ba - the End of Civilization is easily the most depressing film I've ever seen.

Speaking of Polish films, I give you the films of Polish lunatic Andrzej Zulawski.

Possession stars Sam Neill (the guy with the hat from Attack of the Dinosaur Theme Park and Isabella Adjiani. It gets some comparison to Cronenberg's The Brood because it was inspired by Zulawski's bitter divorce.

On the Silver Globe was based on Zulawski's granduncle's trilogy of1900 sci-fi novels set on the moon. The Polish government shut down production, thinking it was a political allegory, so Zulawski released an unfinished version with narration to fill in the gaps.

From the Acclaimed Director of "Waterboys" and "Swing Girls" comes an all-new adventure comedy called "Happy Flight"! The cabin attendant Etsuko Saito (Haruka Ayase) is nervous about her first international flight. On the same plane, co-pilot Suzuki (Seiichi Tanabe) is up for promotion. But before he can get his captain's wing. He has to get through a flight evaluation with the tough-as-nails captain. An unexpected crisis put the flight in danger as the captain discovered a hurricane is brewing just off the coast...... Can they safely land before the storm hits the airport?

Murphy and Lawrence went on to make The Quiet Earth, which is also highly recommended. I'd link to the trailer but it's filled with spoilers. It's about the last man on earth, left there after an experiment makes the rest of humanity disappear.

Cédric Kahn's L'ennui, about a teacher who becomes sexually obsessed with a young woman and throws his life into the toilet. One of the best films about obsession I've ever seen.

O-bi, O-ba - the End of Civilization was the first film i saw of Szulkins. I remember it being really long, all in gray and blue, and yes it was fucking depressing. Brilliant!

I also managed to find a copy of on the silver globe last year. found it rather interesting.

Here are some more suggestions for you film hounds out there...Monanieba (Repentance) - A film from georgia made in 1984 by Tengiz Abuladze. Tells the story of a kind small town mayor who dies but they find his corpse turning up in the town. the event unearths the real truth about his reign and the evils that he committedThe consequences of Love - An 2004 Italian film about a mysterious stranger who stays in a Swiss hotel and falls for the barmaid. But who is he?...Roberto succo - A 2001 French film that tells the story of a real life serieal killer that stalked Italy and France in the 80´s. Kind of like the european Ted Bundy

Do people really remember this movie (if yes, I apologise)This is a forgotten film here, although it won the Cannes film festival in 1971.No dvd available.Taking off by Milos forman, although I don't think it's mainstream.

@Danny Djeljosevic: 'Possession' was banned by the Department of Public Prosecutions for a long while in Britain. Although I did read that it was shown late night on one of the terrestrial TV stations during this ban.